Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.

Saturday, August 02, 2014

House Republicans worked overtime last night to pass two bills addressing the border crisis — measures all but certain to die in the Senate – hours after President Obama threatened to act on his own.
“I’m gonna have to act alone,” Obama told reporters during an afternoon briefing, dismissing the House’s emergency spending bill in response to the surge of unaccompanied children from Central America as “extreme” and “unworkable.” In a 223-189 vote late last night, however, the House passed a revision of legislation Speaker John A. Boehner dramatically pulled from consideration Thursday because of opposition from conservatives. More dramatically, the House voted 216-192 on a separate bill to stop Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
program, or DACA, which the president implemented in 2012. Republican
leaders blame its deferred deportations for certain young illegal
immigrants for the sudden flood of Central American child migrants to
the Texas border with Mexico. This second bill, sponsored by Rep. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., states
that the president cannot renew or expand DACA — effectively ending it
and clearing the way for eventual deportation of children brought here
illegally. Conservatives who opposed the earlier version of the border
spending bill said lack of action on DACA would be a deal-breaker...more